DRAMBORA Auditors' Training: Rome 2009

Course overview

Based on practical research and developed jointly by the Digital Curation
Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), the Digital Repository
Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) provides a methodology for
self-assessment of digital preservation repositories. The toolkit, now
available as an interactive online audit tool
(http://www.repositoryaudit.eu), has been evaluated and applied across a
diverse range of organisations, such as national libraries, scientific data
centres and archives. The DCC and DPE are organising a series of training
courses to train new DRAMBORA auditors.

Duration of the course

Three days, from Monday 23rd to Wednesday 25th March 2009.

Number of participants

The maximum number of course participants is 12.

Benefits of attendance

This course will enable attendees to:

Comprehend the concept of risk with regards to digital preservation repositories

Recognise the need for evidence-based evaluation for building trust in digital repositories

Understand how the DRAMBORA toolkit can be used to help design and develop systems and workflows that can help build trusted digital repositories

Appreciate the range of staff and skill-sets required to implement and sustain a trusted digital repository

Obtain a working knowledge of the issues surrounding assessment, audit and certification of digital preservation repositories.

Course modules

Day 1:

Key concepts in assessment of digital preservation repositories

Day 2:

Introduction to the DRAMBORA method and toolkit

Using DRAMBORA Interactive in practice

Day 3:

Preparing the test assessment using DRAMBORA

Setting up a DRAMBORA assessment - practical guidance

Target audience and requirements

This course is directed at 12 practitioners actively involved in funding, supporting, developing, implementing, and/or managing digital preservation repositories and interested in the assessment of digital repositories. The course will also be of value to auditors and risk managers from archives, libraries and museums sector, as well as other institutions such as data archives, government departments, legal and commercial sectors.

For an individual pilot test audit , participants are invited to bring along documentation on a digital preservation repository they are managing or of which they have sound knowledge.

Format

A mixture of lectures and practical activities will be offered with the main focus on hands-on group training. Online support and tutorials will be provided subsequent to the course.

The DRAMBORA auditors training course will be conducted as a small scale, fairly intimate event, since it requires a higher concentration of practical activities and therefore benefits from a smaller number of participants.

Full course programme

Trainers

The course trainers will be DPE and DCC experts, who authored the DRAMBORA toolkit, have deep inside knowledge of other repository audit and certification tools and have experience in applying them in practice:

Perla Innocenti, HATII at the University of Glasgow

Andrew McHugh, HATII at the University of Glasgow

Raivo Ruusalepp, National Archives of Netherlands

Course fees

The course fee is 200 EURO for DPE, DCC, Planets, Caspar, Protage or SHAMAN members, and 250 EURO for all other participants. The fee covers the cost of coffee-breaks, lunches and course materials for each participant.

DPE and DCC aim to provide a series of courses which will develop the knowledge and skills of core communities, promote the importance of digital preservation and digital curation, and educate in the ways that the associated methods and tools can help to resolve these issues. The programme does not aim to make a financial profit through following this responsibility. However, both projects recognise that to cover nominal costs and to ensure attendance from those registered for the event, a small charge for courses will be necessary.

A list of accomodations in Rome is also available from the DELOS website: PDF (12KB)

How to get there

The training course location is conveniently located in Rome city centre, at 10 minutes walking distance from Termini Train Station. It is well connected via public transport (underground line B stop Castro Pretorio, buses 310, 492, 9). Further indicatio (in Italian) and a map are available at http://www.iccu.sbn.it/genera.jsp?s=6&l=it.

Further Information

The DRAMBORA Auditors Training Course is organized by the Digital Curation Centre and DigitalPreservationEurope.

If you have any further queries or require additional information, please contact either: